LibraryThing podcast 2: Unstructured yapping
At some point, I want to get a LibraryThing podcast going. I did one formal episode already, an interview with librarian Jason Griffey, a cool librarian, about a year ago.
What I'd really like to do is something like Uncontrolled Vocabulary, Greg Schwartz's weekly, freewheeling phone-in conversation, now on indefinite hiatus, or the Stack Overflow podcast, a similar shoot-the-breeze between star-programmers Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood.
Until that day, here's a 50-minute kaffeeklatsch between LibraryThing employees, recorded back during out "week of code." It was originally filmed, but, well, I'm vain.
Here's the direct link to the MP3: http://www.librarything.com/podcast/002.mp3
In the conversation (around the room clockwise): Tim Spalding, Mike Bannister, Casey Durfee, Sonya Green, Chris Catalfo, Luke Stevens, Chris Holland. Alas, Abby was in Boston, John in Hobart and Giovanni in, I think, Thailand.
Topics:
What I'd really like to do is something like Uncontrolled Vocabulary, Greg Schwartz's weekly, freewheeling phone-in conversation, now on indefinite hiatus, or the Stack Overflow podcast, a similar shoot-the-breeze between star-programmers Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood.
Until that day, here's a 50-minute kaffeeklatsch between LibraryThing employees, recorded back during out "week of code." It was originally filmed, but, well, I'm vain.
Here's the direct link to the MP3: http://www.librarything.com/podcast/002.mp3
In the conversation (around the room clockwise): Tim Spalding, Mike Bannister, Casey Durfee, Sonya Green, Chris Catalfo, Luke Stevens, Chris Holland. Alas, Abby was in Boston, John in Hobart and Giovanni in, I think, Thailand.
Topics:
- The Kindle
- Comic books
- Academic publishing
- Archaeology
- Newspapers
- O'Reilly books
- Marginalia
- Female archaelogists who wear plants
- Why Chris Holland is above CSS books
- Internet Explorer 6
- Bad collections forecasting
Labels: podcasts
posted by Tim at 4:44 PM
8 Comments:
Awesome. I can't wait to give it a listen!
Hi Tim...it's Sheila from St. Mary's at Georgetown. Fantastic discussion. Like the Jim Lehrer News Hour on 800 cups of coffee. I have several reactions:
1) I think the comparison with how music is now shared/pirated because of its availability in digital form with how books could be shared without DRM on the Kindle or another format is apples and oranges.
Here's why: songs are max six minutes long...it's really easy to consume that. There are nearly 60 songs that I hear on a monthly basis that are new. I may want 5 of them. Of those five, I'll actively seek or buy 3 of them.
Books are not an impulse purchase, because you don't get a 260 minute fix from them. You have to invest alot more time.
And I think that because of that, the max amount of books that would get pirated are way way way lower than the amount of songs or movies that would get stolen (and yes, it's stealing unless the artist/label offers them for free).
This about the ratio of songs v. albums that get pirated/stolen.
Sure, the new U2 or Coldplay full albums get stolen. But there are very few mid-level bands that have full albums stolen without people actually purchasing them after they leak.
Not to mention, also, that stealing artists' works also seems to be morally okay only among a much younger crowd. I could be wrong, but I don't think this is the Kindle's audience. The only people I know with Kindles are above 60.
Okay...I'm done ranting..
And I'll admit I didn't listen to your whole podcast, but I haven't seen anything anywhere about the first business that the Kindle will kill: airport bookstores. I am an impulse book buyer, and many of those purchases have been made in an airport bookstore, when I forgot to pack what I was currently reading. If I had a Kindle, I could see that book in the store, and just log on to the airport wifi, and download the book without the premium that those stores charge.
That said, airports will be that much more insufferable without bookstores.
Signing off, thanks for your site and this discussion...are you going to reunion in May???
Excellent idea...sign me up!
Larry
http://www.privatelibrary.typepad.com/
Fun! I enjoyed eavesdropping on all y'all's business.
However, I was disappointed that there wasn't any actual discussion of women wearing *plants*... :)
Good idea guys, would love to hear more from you at some point. One or two thoughts however.
1) If you plan to make this regular feature, give everyone a mike. With any background noise at all, it makes it hard to hear those not right up next to the cam.
2)About the DMR discussion; Cory Doctorow and others with the EFF have released (maybe less than scienctific) studies that suggest that the top 30% or so of artists would loose sales, the bottom %30 would gain sales and the middle %40 would see little change. Maybe this is a little socialistic, but would that be a bad thing? Those at the top could afford it and those at the bottom could use it.
Doctorow always said that he suffers(ed) not from consumer theft but from consumer ignorance.
3) Glad to hear about collections, cant wait!
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